The Big Sick

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The Big Sick
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Directed by Michael Showalter
Written by
Produced by
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CinematographyBrian Burgoyne
Edited byRobert Nassau
Music by Michael Andrews
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Release dates
  • January 20, 2017 (2017-01-20)(Sundance)
  • June 23, 2017 (2017-06-23)(United States)
Running time
120 minutes [1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$5 million [2]
Box office$56.4 million [3]

The Big Sick is a 2017 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Michael Showalter and written by Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani. It stars Nanjiani, Zoe Kazan, Holly Hunter, Ray Romano, Adeel Akhtar, and Anupam Kher. Gordon and Nanjiani wrote the film based on their relationship; it follows an interracial couple who must deal with cultural differences after Emily (Kazan) becomes ill.

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The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 20, 2017. It began a limited theatrical release on June 23, 2017, by Amazon Studios and Lionsgate, before going wide on July 14, 2017. One of the most acclaimed films of 2017, it was chosen by American Film Institute as one of the top 10 films of the year and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. [4] With a budget of $5 million, it grossed $56 million worldwide, becoming one of the highest-grossing independent films of 2017.

Plot

Kumail is an Uber driver and struggling stand-up comedian in Chicago. His parents are first-generation immigrants from Pakistan, who live in the suburbs. One evening, after performing at the local comedy club, Kumail sleeps with a graduate student from the University of Chicago named Emily. He drives her home and they agree not to meet again.

Kumail visits his family over the weekend, where his mother tries to set him up for an arranged marriage. Kumail is not interested but plays along. Meanwhile, Kumail and Emily continue hooking up and eventually start dating. Emily confesses to him her past divorce, then reveals she feels strongly about him. Kumail, however, dodges any requests to meet her parents. When she discovers that he has been seeing other women for potential marriage, she breaks up with him.

Although heartbroken, Kumail moves on, focusing on stand-up and securing an audition for the Montreal Comedy Festival. One night, he is informed that Emily has been admitted to the hospital. He goes to drive her home, but is pressured by doctors into giving permission to place Emily into an induced coma for treatment. Kumail signs the medical release, then informs Emily's parents in North Carolina.

Terry and Beth arrive the next day. They are hostile to Kumail for his break-up with Emily, but Terry allows Kumail to continue visiting. Emily undergoes surgery for a rapidly spreading infection, but fails to stabilize. Doctors are unable to diagnose her illness, and Beth ponders moving her to a better hospital.

Distracted with Emily's condition, Kumail ignores his parents' continued demands about marriage. He tells them about Emily and they refuse to speak with him. Meanwhile, Emily's infection grows unchecked. Kumail learns that she could die, causing him to fail his Montreal audition.

The next morning, Emily's health suddenly improves and she is brought out of the coma. Terry and Beth, who have grown to like Kumail during this time, ask him to visit. Emily is diagnosed with a rare adult-onset Still's disease. She will fully recover but has lower inhibitions, and rebuffs Kumail when he arrives to see her. At a party celebrating her recovery, Kumail asks Emily to get back together, but she refuses.

Emily later watches a video of Kumail's Montreal audition. She realizes the extent of his efforts to keep seeing her despite family pressure, and visits him at the local theater. Kumail informs her that he is moving to New York City to pursue stand-up. Emily is disappointed but wishes him luck.

Kumail starts to patch his relationship with his family before leaving Chicago. In NYC, he performs at a local club and is heckled, albeit encouragingly, by a female audience member. He turns to see that it is Emily, and she hints that she is there to meet him. End credits show his marriage with Emily, in which he reconciled with his parents.

Cast

Production

Development

In December 2015, it was announced Kumail Nanjiani would star in the film from a screenplay written by him and wife Emily V. Gordon, while Judd Apatow would produce alongside Barry Mendel, under their Apatow Productions banner, while FilmNation Entertainment would finance the film. [5] Michael Andrews composed the film's score. [6]

Casting

In February 2016, Zoe Kazan joined the cast, [7] along with Holly Hunter and Ray Romano in April 2016. [8] Unlike many of the other portrayals in The Big Sick, Romano's and Hunter's roles in the film were not modeled after Emily V. Gordon's actual parents. Instead, Hunter said that she never contacted or spoke with Gordon's mother before playing the part, as she wanted to "feel my own freedom with the character". [9] In May 2016, Aidy Bryant, Bo Burnham, Adeel Akhtar and Kurt Braunohler also joined the cast of the film. [10] [11] David Alan Grier was cast in The Big Sick after he met with Gordon when she was a writer for The Carmichael Show . Grier's role was part of a larger subplot that was ultimately cut from the film's release. [12] [13]

Anupam Kher's casting in the film was reported in June 2016. He was directly contacted by Kumail Nanjiani, as Nanjiani's father had recommended Kher play the role. According to Kher, his character's last scene in the film was the first scene he had filmed for the production. The Big Sick marks Kher's 500th appearance in a feature film. [14] [15] [16] [17]

Writing

The screenplay for The Big Sick is written by Emily V. Gordon and her husband Kumail Nanjiani and is loosely based on the real-life courtship between them before their marriage in 2007. According to Nanjiani, the idea to make a script about them was first inspired by the film's eventual co-producer Judd Apatow when the two met while appearing in a 2012 episode of the You Made It Weird podcast. [18] Developed over the course of three years, the script has been called semi-autobiographical because, in addition to the two lead characters modeled after them, many of the events occurring during Gordon and Nanjiani's relationship are noted as being portrayed to an extent in the film. [19] [20] [21] [22] [23]

Though not part of the original script, a real-life incident involving Holly Hunter heckling an unnamed player during a US Open tennis match inspired a similar scene in the film where Nanjiani's character is heckled during one of his stand-up sets. [24]

Filming

Principal photography began on May 11, 2016. [25]

Release

The Big Sick premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 20, 2017. [26] Shortly after, Amazon Studios acquired distribution rights to the film, after bids from Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions, Fox Searchlight Pictures, Focus Features and Paramount Pictures. [27] The $12 million acquisition marked the second-largest deal of the 2017 festival. [28] [29] Lionsgate partnered with Amazon on the U.S. release, and spent around $20 million on marketing the film. [30] [31] It also screened at South by Southwest on March 16, 2017, where it won an Audience Award in the category Festival Favorites. [32] The film began a limited release on June 23, 2017, before going wide on July 14, 2017. [33]

Controversy

There was backlash against the movie due to South Asian women being portrayed as stereotypical and undesirable. [34] Also, Vella Lovell, a half White and Black actress who is not of South Asian descent, played a Pakistani love interest with a strained accent. [35]

In 2021, Kumail Nanjiani said, "Our movie was the first one in a long time where there were multiple Desi female characters, and the first few you see are reduced...People wanted to see themselves. It's something I completely regret. I would not do it that way now." [36]

Reception

Box office

The Big Sick grossed $42.9 million in the United States and Canada, and $13.4 million in other territories, for a total gross of $56.2 million. [3]

In the film's limited opening weekend, it made $421,577 from five theaters (a per-theater gross of $84,315, the best of 2017 until Lady Bird in November), finishing 17th at the box office. [37] The film expanded to 2,597 theaters on July 14, 2017, and was projected to gross $9–11 million over the weekend. [31] It grossed $7.6 million over the weekend, finishing fifth at the box office. [38] On July 25, the film crossed $26 million, becoming the second highest-grossing independent film of 2017. [39] [40]

Critical response

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 98% based on 303 reviews, with an average rating of 8.30/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Funny, heartfelt, and intelligent, The Big Sick uses its appealing leads and cross-cultural themes to prove the standard romcom formula still has some fresh angles left to explore." [41] It was rated as Rotten Tomatoes' #1 summer movie of 2017. [42] On Metacritic, the film received an average score of 86 out of 100, based on 47 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". [43] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale. [38]

In a review for the Toronto Star , Peter Howell gave The Big Sick four stars out of four, praising the film as "hilarious and heartbreaking", as well as applauding the performances of the entire cast. [44] Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times praised the film: "It is funny and smart and wise and silly, it is romantic and sweet and just cynical enough, and it is without a doubt one of the best romantic comedies I have seen in a long time." [45] The Big Sick was also selected as an "NYT Critic's Pick" by Manohla Dargis of The New York Times . In her review, Dargis praised Michael Showalter's direction and the screenplay by Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani for "revitalizing an often moribund subgenre with a true story of love, death and the everyday comedy of being a 21st-century American." [46]

While praising the lead performances, Robbie Collin of The Daily Telegraph wrote a mixed review for The Big Sick. Collin contends that director Showalter "never comes close to dampening down its leading couple's inextinguishable appeal." [47] In a negative review for The New Yorker , Richard Brody wrote that the film "suffers from an excess of pleasantness, and this very pleasantness thins out its substance, blands out its tone, weakens its comedy." [48]

Accolades

According to a poll conducted by AwardsDaily in July 2017, polling one hundred critics, The Big Sick was voted the second best film of 2017 so far, behind Get Out . [49]

AwardDate of ceremonyCategoryRecipient(s)ResultRef.
AARP's Movies for Grownups Awards February 5, 2018Best Supporting Actress Holly Hunter Nominated [50] [51] [52]
Best Intergenerational FilmThe Big SickNominated
Academy Awards March 4, 2018 Best Original Screenplay Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani Nominated [53]
American Film Institute January 5, 2018 Top Ten Films of the YearThe Big SickWon [54]
Austin Film Critics Association January 8, 2018Best Supporting ActressHolly HunterNominated [55]
Best Original ScreenplayEmily V. Gordon and Kumail NanjianiNominated
Top 10 FilmsThe Big Sick9th Place
Chicago Film Critics Association December 12, 2017 Best Supporting Actress Holly HunterNominated [56]
[57]
Best Original Screenplay Emily V. Gordon and Kumail NanjianiNominated
Critics' Choice Movie Awards January 11, 2018 Best Picture The Big SickNominated [58]
Best Supporting Actress Holly HunterNominated
Best Original Screenplay Emily V. Gordon and Kumail NanjianiNominated
Best Comedy The Big SickWon
Best Actor in a Comedy Kumail NanjianiNominated
Best Actress in a Comedy Zoe Kazan Nominated
Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association December 13, 2017 Best Supporting Actress Holly Hunter4th Place [59]
Detroit Film Critics Society December 7, 2017Best ScreenplayEmily V. Gordon and Kumail NanjianiNominated [60]
Best Supporting Actress Holly HunterNominated
Best EnsembleThe cast of The Big SickNominated
Empire Awards March 18, 2018 Best Comedy The Big SickNominated [61]
[62]
Florida Film Critics Circle December 23, 2017 Best Supporting Actress Holly HunterNominated [63]
[64]
Best Original Screenplay Emily V. Gordon and Kumail NanjianiNominated
Best Cast The cast of The Big SickNominated
Georgia Film Critics Association January 12, 2018Best PictureThe Big SickNominated [65]
Best Supporting ActressHolly HunterNominated
Best Original ScreenplayEmily V. Gordon and Kumail NanjianiNominated
Gotham Awards November 27, 2017 Best Screenplay Emily V. Gordon and Kumail NanjianiNominated [66]
Houston Film Critics Society January 6, 2018 Best Picture The Big SickNominated [67]
Best Supporting Actress Holly HunterNominated
Best Screenplay Emily V. Gordon and Kumail NanjianiNominated
Humanitas Prize February 16, 2018Feature – ComedyEmily V. Gordon and Kumail NanjianiNominated [68]
IGN Awards December 19, 2017Movie of the YearThe Big SickNominated [69]
Best Comedy MovieThe Big SickRunner-up
Best Lead Performer in a MovieKumail NanjianiNominated
Best Supporting Performer in a MovieHolly HunterNominated
Ray Romano Nominated
Independent Spirit Awards March 3, 2018 Best Supporting Female Holly HunterNominated [70]
Best First Screenplay Emily V. Gordon and Kumail NanjianiWon
IndieWire Critics Poll December 19, 2017Best Supporting ActressHolly Hunter4th Place [71]
London Film Critics' Circle January 28, 2018 Supporting Actress of the Year Holly HunterNominated [72]
Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild February 24, 2018Feature Motion Picture: Best Contemporary MakeupKirsten Sylvester and Leo WonNominated [73]
Feature Motion Picture: Best Contemporary Hair StylingTonia Ciccone and Toni Roman-grimmNominated
Online Film Critics Society December 28, 2017 Best Supporting Actress Holly HunterNominated [74]
Palm Springs International Film Festival January 2, 2018Career Achievement AwardHolly HunterWon [75]
Producers Guild of America Awards January 20, 2018 Best Theatrical Motion Picture Judd Apatow and Barry MendelNominated [76]
San Diego Film Critics Society December 11, 2017 Best Supporting Actress Holly HunterNominated [77]
[78]
Best Original Screenplay Emily V. Gordon and Kumail NanjianiNominated
Best Comedic PerformanceRay RomanoNominated
San Francisco Film Critics Circle December 10, 2017 Best Supporting Actress Holly HunterNominated [79]
Best Original Screenplay Emily V. Gordon and Kumail NanjianiNominated
Santa Barbara International Film Festival January 31, 2018Virtuoso AwardKumail NanjianiWon [80]
Satellite Awards February 10, 2018 Best Film The Big SickNominated [81]
Best Supporting Actress Holly HunterNominated
Screen Actors Guild Awards January 21, 2018 Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture The cast of The Big SickNominated [82]
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role Holly HunterNominated
Seattle Film Critics Society December 18, 2017Best Supporting ActressHolly HunterNominated [83]
Best ScreenplayEmily V. Gordon and Kumail NanjianiNominated
South by Southwest March 18, 2017Audience Award: Festival FavoritesThe Big SickWon [84]
St. Louis Film Critics Association December 17, 2017 Best Supporting Actress Holly HunterRunner-up [85]
Best Original Screenplay Emily V. Gordon and Kumail NanjianiNominated
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association December 8, 2017 Best Supporting Actress Holly HunterNominated [86]
Best Original Screenplay Emily V. Gordon and Kumail NanjianiNominated
Women Film Critics Circle December 17, 2017Best Screen CoupleThe Big SickWon [87]
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Writers Guild of America Awards February 11, 2018 Best Original Screenplay Emily V. Gordon and Kumail NanjianiNominated [89]

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